SW: "Aqualung!" MA: "Yeah! - FUCK!" haha, this is so funny... It is incredible that Steven Wilson knows all this shit. I mean, Akerfeldt also knows a lot of stuff about progrock and krautrock, but Steven is a fucking enciclopedia! ^^ But one thing is for sure: They are both gods when it comes to making music...
The funny thing is they both know most of them, with Steven obviously knowing more hahaha, but he's just fast as fuck to say them where Mikael's just all chill trying to say it in a few seconds rather than straight away. Who cares what he knows about other bands when he can just talk about Opeth and continue writing some of the best music ever dreamt of!
I think Wilson doesn't even need to try to remember the answers. The man is a prog encyclopedia. Also gotta love it how he is slightly irritated when Åkerfeldt is quicker to answer the Camel question. Can't wait for the upcoming Opeth album that Wilson will be producing.
As Steven says at the end, these questions are geared more towards the more "mainstream" side of prog (Yes, Genesis, Rush, Marillion etc.). I think Mikael would've scored higher if they've had more obscure bands as well.
Love both these guys, and while Mikael might not have the same encyclopedic knowledge as Steven, I believe his musical creativity is superior. This track "Lotus Eater" is a masterpiece in and of itself.
@MALSIV ya im a prog metal head and i think Opeth are a little better than PT but i do love PT alot.Tool also is a prog metalhead band which i love very much too
Wilson always struck me as the learnéd, encyclopaedic-type. Well, while Mikael misses sum of these points, he makes up for with his inherent knowledge of musicianship }={D- (
@StarMatt9th I do not think there was much influence in Opeth's music, except the Watershed album. You find there everything hard/prog rock had before.
According to a comment left on the original upload of this video, this was actually a prank on Åkerfeldt that Steven and the guy conducting the quiz had prepared in advance. For Steven Wilson's sake I hope that's true... :O
Haha not surprised that Steven got so many right, and it isnt surprsing considering PT's and Opeth's early history. PT started out as a pure prog/trance/experimental/psychedelic band, Opeth was simply death metal.
Steven...You are a real Prog Expert. Whow. So thats why your music is so influenced by these records. ;))) You've listened to it in your youth, like me. Ok..Congratulations, have you won something in this Quiz? Maybe a new Guitar? Hey, I love your Music (PT), from the Beginning. Go on. Pat
opeth wins with their music, i dont understand how people compare the two, ive never found songs by either of them that sound alike, and if someone has, please show me
Well, if you follow premiership, or have seen an important match of Liverpool Fc Team, you can relate them to the singing in "Fearless", "The Crowd" is famous actually for singing "You'll never walk alone". I think he got a relation there... but i dont know man, im just guessing too. Hahahaha. Meddle is a great album. PF its not only Dark Side or The Wall.
@MarianOctavarium Please read and understand my comment before before you reply. Steve Vai is obviously a genius with a guitar on a technical level(He can play really fast) but take almost any of his songs and you will find that everything BUT the guitar playing is usually pretty simple and repetetive. Your opinion is'nt the rule, and if you don't think Beethoven was a genius.... Well then that pretty much speaks for itself. The guy wrote an entire symphony while being deaf for gods sake.
@PeterElune bro, lo hacen por diversion nomas. son amigos. igual mikael hace buenisima musica sin haber estudiado casi nada. el compone y si le gusta omo suena, sale
Fuck me how does he know all that shit? I got maybe 6 right almost 7 but missed the 3rd Genesis album, and I was listening to that stuff in the 70's. The guy's got a memory like a computer hard drive.
Every single time Mikael looks at the camera when Steven answers is gold.
I haven't laughed this hard all week. The look on Mikael's face just slew me.
The part when Steven names the songs on Rush's Hemispheres.. 'it's pathetic isn't it, really.'
I love how embarrassed Steven is knowing this stuff. It's the burden of being a Prog fan.
SW: "Aqualung!"
MA: "Yeah! - FUCK!"
haha, this is so funny... It is incredible that Steven Wilson knows all this shit. I mean, Akerfeldt also knows a lot of stuff about progrock and krautrock, but Steven is a fucking enciclopedia! ^^
But one thing is for sure: They are both gods when it comes to making music...
The song is called "The Lotus Eater". It's from Opeth's Watershed album, definately check it out :)
lol
12 years later, still the best thing on YT.
Steven Wilson is the Tom Bombadil of music
This was hysterical! I am not surprised that Steven Wilson knew them all!! I do love them both though!
Two of the world's most amazing musicians.
I love Mikael's face after the Genesis live one. He just looks over with such a "...WTF" look.
i feel embarrassed and i'm really impressed xD .... both of you are music GODS
The funny thing is they both know most of them, with Steven obviously knowing more hahaha, but he's just fast as fuck to say them where Mikael's just all chill trying to say it in a few seconds rather than straight away. Who cares what he knows about other bands when he can just talk about Opeth and continue writing some of the best music ever dreamt of!
these two have the greatest albums but at the end of the day steven wilson is music and even mikael would agree with me.
Ohhh I so agree as well!
I think Wilson doesn't even need to try to remember the answers. The man is a prog encyclopedia. Also gotta love it how he is slightly irritated when Åkerfeldt is quicker to answer the Camel question.
Can't wait for the upcoming Opeth album that Wilson will be producing.
Poor Mikael Akerfeldt... he didn't know a bus full of Steven Wilson was headed right for him. ^_^
Hilarious video!
Steven and Mikael both own, IMO
PT and Opeth are so more better than most other music out there these days
2:51 best Opeth meme
Mikael would have won on a Death Metal Quiz... xD
No, Steven is actually incredibly smart.
Wasn't a fair fight. I really want to see Steven Wilson going against Mike Portnoy on a prog/metal trivia, now that'd be a close one.
Steven wilson must be a machine...😂
I watched this video 10 years ago, then I kept listening to prog until today and I still can't answer any of the questions
literally spat out my coffee laughing when steven named the song titles of hemispheres! hahahaha fuckin brilliant!
2:50
Mike's Troll face
The song is called 'Lotus Eater' from the Album Watershed
As Steven says at the end, these questions are geared more towards the more "mainstream" side of prog (Yes, Genesis, Rush, Marillion etc.). I think Mikael would've scored higher if they've had more obscure bands as well.
3:01 There's the template
"Find someone who looks at you the way Steven looks at Mikael".
Im really a huge fan of both, but porcupine tree kicks asses
1:13 LOL
He just give an instant answer and Mikael just is like '';D''
I laughed like hell 😆 Mikael's eyes are so lost ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Love these guys so much!
HAHA i love the way steven starts to humour mikael at about half way through by letting him answer a few
Love both these guys, and while Mikael might not have the same encyclopedic knowledge as Steven, I believe his musical creativity is superior. This track "Lotus Eater" is a masterpiece in and of itself.
Steven is taking this thing too seriously!!
LOL!
whats the song at the beginning of the video? :o its so cool
@mashmnky
well im more partial to Opeth, and never really listened to Porcupine Tree, if there are two songs alike.... what would they be?
Steven Wilson is just amazing in the quiz
Mikael is just like ffs as how quick Steven is
I knew that Mike would get the Camel question.
You know where I can find that Song?
Wilson wasn't involved in Fear of a Blank Planet? Don't you mean Watershed? FoaBP is a Porcupine Tree album :-P
I love them both! :) Awesome to see them side by side
Yeah dude, I thought the exact same thing but the more I listened to it, the more I realized how complex and beautiful it is.
@MALSIV
ya im a prog metal head and i think Opeth are a little better than PT but i do love PT alot.Tool also is a prog metalhead band which i love very much too
that steven guy is mad, excuse my ignorance, which band is he from? I only know Mikael from opeth here
Wilson always struck me as the learnéd, encyclopaedic-type. Well, while Mikael misses sum of these points, he makes up for with his inherent knowledge of musicianship }={D- (
sorry for the ignorance, but what's the song in background?
Opeth - The Lotus Eater
man i love this.
Hahaha, this is hilarious. I only knew a few of these. Steven Wilson has obviously spent a lot of time with a lot of prog albums.
Is watershed any good?
Oh Steven Wilson, You never can seize to amaze me can you?
What song is it?
Love them both... Steven is Encyclopedia. :)))))
Both are geniuses, but yeah, steven is a living encyclopedia
@StarMatt9th I do not think there was much influence in Opeth's music, except the Watershed album. You find there everything hard/prog rock had before.
damn
Steven destroyed Mikael
i still like Opeth alot more, but Porcupine Tree is a good abdn too, both these guys are awesome
Thats "The Lotus Eater" off of Opeths new album, Watershed
@MrCrimsondom
originality isn't by inspiration of another's work?
In every question Akerfeldt looks owned! xD
Hilarious...
Both great/awesome bands
:)
Damn, he's quick! Love both bands, but Opeth definitely more.
According to a comment left on the original upload of this video, this was actually a prank on Åkerfeldt that Steven and the guy conducting the quiz had prepared in advance. For Steven Wilson's sake I hope that's true... :O
Holy shit Steve Wilson knows a lot (understatement of the year) about prog :S
Haha not surprised that Steven got so many right, and it isnt surprsing considering PT's and Opeth's early history. PT started out as a pure prog/trance/experimental/psychedelic band, Opeth was simply death metal.
How do you know he's stoned, exactly?
1:12 mikael is probably thinking " O GAWED IM GONNA GET TRASHED "
I love both bands in the same way :D
Steven wins the quiz, Mickael wins musically with the mighty Opeth
Lotus eaters. GREAT song. Both of these bands are great.
How can he remember all that stuff?
"i don't even have that album"
hahahahaha
Jesus, does Steven do nothing but study prog rock stuff all day?
Lol Mike's more of a metal head :P It was still funny to see him schooled XD
Steven...You are a real Prog Expert. Whow.
So thats why your music is so influenced by these records. ;)))
You've listened to it in your youth, like me.
Ok..Congratulations, have you won something in this Quiz? Maybe a new Guitar?
Hey, I love your Music (PT), from the Beginning. Go on.
Pat
@StarMatt9th You got me here. btw Mikael answered the Camel question here;]
that's what was going on inside of my head the whole entire video XD
Yeah,i found that out,but thanks a lot anyway. Its an amazing song.
Two GODS....
I love you, guys!!!
seeing Porcupine Tree tonight !!!! It's going to be and experience!
woow, great vid,
they`re both so fckin great !!!!!!!
It's okay, Mikael. You're still awesome.
opeth wins with their music, i dont understand how people compare the two, ive never found songs by either of them that sound alike, and if someone has, please show me
It's amazing... How can Steven remember all of these things?
If you love the music you remember it.
Well, if you follow premiership, or have seen an important match of Liverpool Fc Team, you can relate them to the singing in "Fearless", "The Crowd" is famous actually for singing "You'll never walk alone". I think he got a relation there... but i dont know man, im just guessing too. Hahahaha.
Meddle is a great album. PF its not only Dark Side or The Wall.
mickaels face when steven answers, haha, he is genius^^
I only got the king crimson question :(
hahahahaha this is funny XD...Mikael and Steven are great musicians!!
@MarianOctavarium Please read and understand my comment before before you reply. Steve Vai is obviously a genius with a guitar on a technical level(He can play really fast) but take almost any of his songs and you will find that everything BUT the guitar playing is usually pretty simple and repetetive. Your opinion is'nt the rule, and if you don't think Beethoven was a genius.... Well then that pretty much speaks for itself. The guy wrote an entire symphony while being deaf for gods sake.
Do it in Swedish next time and Mikael will win ;)
@PeterElune bro, lo hacen por diversion nomas. son amigos. igual mikael hace buenisima musica sin haber estudiado casi nada. el compone y si le gusta omo suena, sale
"it wasn't obscure enough for you" :)
I knew almost all of these. :) But wow SW is a champ.
@floydian672 Yeah absolutely, he is music.
Fuck me how does he know all that shit? I got maybe 6 right almost 7 but missed the 3rd Genesis album, and I was listening to that stuff in the 70's.
The guy's got a memory like a computer hard drive.
I think Mikael knew a lot of these but did want to talk over top of Steven
Oh,WHATS THE SONG???
ITS DARUDE SANDSTORM
Steven Wilson knows about music, he is a good musician, but I still like Opeth better. Although... Porcupine Tree has some amazing tracks
on the watershed album Lotus eater
The question are geared way more towards Wilsons musical style's then akerfeldts. So it would only be natural for steven to win this.
...and there's a reason that a song by opeth is played in the background^^
2:52 Miakel: PRICELESS!!! lool
I like both
Why do I have to choose one
If I can listen to both of them :P
damn Steven is good, he knows he's thing